Resilience in children
By: edited by Barry M. Lester, Ann S. Masten, and Bruce McEwen.
Contributors: Lester, Barry M.; Masten, Ann S.; McEwen, Bruce S.; New York Academy of Sciences.
Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- v. 1094
Publisher: Published by Blackwell Pub. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781573316439
Subjects: Resilience (Personality trait) in children -- Congresses; Adaptation, Psychological -- Congresses; Adolescent; Child Development -- Congresses; Child
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Competence and resilience in development / Ann S. Masten and Jelena Obradovic; title: Contributions of temperament to buffering and sensitization processes in children's development / Theodore D. Wachs; title: Resilience as an attribute of the developmental system: comments on the papers of professors Masten and Wachs / Richard M. Lerner; title: Risk, resiliency, and gene-environment interactions in Rhesus monkeys / Stephen J. Suomi; title: Social class and race disparities in school readiness: how can we close the gap / Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; title: Response / Edward Z. Tronick; title: Conceptual issues in studies of resilience: past, present, and future research / Suniya S. Luthar; title: Biopsychosocial influences on the development of resilience / Arnold Sameroff; title: Response; title: Adolescents' resilience as a self-regulatory process: promising themes for linking intervention with developmental science / Thomas J. Dishion and Arin Connell; title: Promoting resilience children and youth: preventive interventions and their interface with neuroscience / Mark T. Greenberg; title: Prevention approaches to enhance resilience among high-risk youth / Karol L. Kumpfer; title: Behavioral differences in aggressive children linked with neural mechanisms of emotion regulation / Marc D. Lewis; title: Discussion of Marc D. Lewis' presentation "Behavioral differences in aggressive children linked with neural mechanisms with developmental science" and Michael Davis' presentation "The role of opiate receptors in the medial nucleus of the Amygdala (MEA) in conditioned fear measured with fear potentiated startle" / Linda C. Mayes; title: Genetic and environmental influences on the development of alcoholism: resilience versus risk / Mary-Anne Enoch; title: Response / Kathleen Ries Merikangas; title: Stress and the adolescent brain / R. Romeo and Bruce McEwen; title: Effects of a therapeutic intervention for foster children on behavior problems, caregiver attachment, and stress regulatory neural systems / Philip A. Fisher; title: Response / Bruce E. Compas; title: Prevention of pediatric bipolar disorder: integration of psychosocial and neurobiological processes / Kiki Chang; title: Roundtable discussion moderator / Ann Masten; title: A multiple-levels-of-analysis perspective on resilience: implications for the developing brain and neural plasticity / Dante Cicchetti; title: The evolutionary basis of adaptation in resilience and vulnerability: a response to Cicchetti and Blender / Myron Hofer.